Well yesterday was an exhausting day but likely only because we got so much in. We got up at a decent hour, we headed up castle hill. This is the hill that the palace, main church, and most of the fortifications were on. When we reached the top we found ourselves at the president's house with an honour guard looking at us. We then heafed to the far side of the hill to check out the church. When we got there it was rainning so we thought we ought to duck in. We h...

Well today we made the shift from vienna to budapext. It was a 3hr high speed train that was more expensive then the overnight one we have in a few days. So we arrived at our hostel around 130 and after dropping stuff of took off again. The hostel is not what I remember hostels being like it is clean the room is fairly large and everything is normal except that the key to the door is anbancient key with what a cartoon charafter might use. Oh the other problem is ...

I'm writing this on the train back from Bratislava. We had a pretty good day there. We start3d by getting thoroughly lost.  then asked a random guy that turned out to be British how to get to the old town. He sent us on the tram and we eventually got there. We then took in the castle and its museums... It was very interesring for an odd reason. It was brand new except for a few parts that included a 12 century towerwhich we climbed. It was new as it burnt down i...

I write this little update to last night on the train to bratislava. We are running a little on the sl8w side this morning only depar5ing at 1030am but we do have a lunch packed from a grocery store so that took a while to. Last night we did go to the big turn of the century ferris wheel with red box cars. It was goif we got to see a l8t of the city. What we did not exoect was a big permenant fair that was going til midnight on a random mondau night in may. We ...

Well today was anotyer busy day... I think we finally finished our time at the hofburg. We took in the royal treasury. There was more gold and jewels then you would ever believe. On to9 of that the number of holy relics was also astounding. As alex pointed out with the number of different pieces of the cross that jesus was nailed to in that were in the treasury you would think thr whole think was there. Also there was a nail that held jesus to the cross... with a...